I saw this advertised in Gumtree. Interesting set-up.
If you wish to buy this bike contact g.hincapie@asda-bso.com
Fell out of the gumtree
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 09:00
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Rome73 17 minutes ago
I worked in outside broadcast (mostly sport) for a quarter of a century, and although I didn’t astutely monitor the situation, one could easily notice the differences in diversity according to sport. Football - very diverse. Boxing, also diverse. Athletics also diverse - especially at international championships. Formula 1 - white. I also covered many ‘minor’ sports like basketball, hockey, swimming. Basket ball was diverse but the latter were white. I never worked at a single cycling event now that I think about it and one thing was certain, the TV crews were exclusively white.
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
And how are those attracted/paid for? Through bigger audiences. There are 53 million black people in the USA, and around 1.2 billion in Africa. How much extra sponsorship and TV coverage do you think women's racing might get if there were a few black US and African women competing? That's not, in your idiotic phrase, "wokeism", it's good sound commercial common sense.
perce 10 hours ago
@chrisonabike I don't know how they would get confused - one's called Jack and one's called Nigel.
Mr Blackbird 10 hours ago
There is so much depressing deja vu here. The defence factors taken from the usual tick box list : "poor lighting", "dark clothes", "didn't see him" etc. The usual rehabilitation path comments : "full of remorse". The common previous : "drugs, and alcohol", "no licence" etc. Even your comments about the tipper truck industry ring a bell. Look up the 1957 British film "Hell Drivers", if you haven't seen it. It must have have been inspired by events of the time. I did wonder why Renshaw had been on remand. Was he a flight risk?
Midgex 11 hours ago
The cycle path at that point is (part of) the main road, not the side road.
mctrials23 11 hours ago
Its not fucking careless if you drive a vehicle and don't check your mirrors. Its fucking dangerous and its fucking deadly. How on earth are we still dealing with this bollocks. Everything about this is maddening. The fact he tried to weasel out of it and blame the cyclist. The fact hes avoided prison. The fact he was still driving after such a long history of dangerous driving. The fact he is still only banned for 12 months despite killing someone due to his inability to drive safely.
the little onion 11 hours ago
The tipper truck industry is an absolute Wild West. Scandal ridden, partly because of the complete lack of regulatory oversight and the pay-by-the-load system which incentives dodgy driving. I hope there is an investigation into the firm’s recruitment process and a corporate manslaughter charge. We urgently need a HSE investigation into the whole industry
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
Perhaps they're confusing the writer with a certain - ahem - new poster?
ktache 11 hours ago
My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Zinovly Savyulak.
mdavidford 12 hours ago
Sounds like a recommendation to me - after all, who'd want their writing to be emotionally empty?
10 thoughts on “Fell out of the gumtree”
Gotta love that aero brake
Gotta love that aero brake mount – not sure how it would benefit a bike such as this but hey, each to their own!
Thank’s how all the kids roll
Thank’s how all the kids roll round here. It give the bike awesome handling.
Don’t often see a bike on
Don’t often see a bike on Gumtree with both wheels. Although I’m sure there’s a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for the ones that have the front wheel missing 😕
didn’t we see that at
didn’t we see that at Eurobike?
I see this so many times,
I see this so many times, commuting… forks back to front, genius! I even stopped one lady to explain, wish I hadn’t!
Flo K
Flo K wrote:I see this so
Yep, done the same to a father and son once as the kid’s bike looked like a crash waiting to happen. The father gave me a mouthful of abuse for being nosey. I am guessing he built it up for his son and ‘knew what he was doing!’
Do those forks make Endos
Do those forks make Endos easier to pull off?
track geometries, hmm… like
track geometries, hmm… like training bra for your first fixie. I would imagine.. ah hem..
We see kids turning up for
We see kids turning up for Bikeability training with bikes built like this all the time.
yeah we do indeed…the usual
yeah we do indeed…the usual “but I got it brand new from asda, tesco, jjb, halford etc etc…and I/They built it up properly, you dont have an f-ing clue” come along with it when we say, erm, this bike is going to cause your child to get injured.